Finance
Oxfam: 5 shocking facts about extreme global inequality and how to even it up
It cannot grow more shocking, but somehow it seems to. Here the newest concerning inequality. Read here
Month: January 2018
Economics
Transformation of Ecological Economics by Ove Jakobsen
Book review by Svein Hammer There are those who still quibble, but most now recognise that our way of living has brought us to the edge of a cliff, where the threat of global crises […]
Economics
Geoff Tily – A demand interpretation of productivity since World War 2 and across the world
What has gone wrong? Why is prosperity stagnating in much of the world? Gepff Tily expleins why. Geoff Tily is a Senior Economist at the Trades Union Congress Cross-posted from Prime Economics Image with acknowledgment […]
Economics
Resolution Foundation – Hey big spender!
What do people spend their money on? This article provides insights concerning the spending habits of the British, breaking this down into income and age groups. The results are telling. Stephen Clarke is a Research […]
Corruption
Romania-Insider: Tens of thousands join first big protest of the year in Romania
Romania’s government, expecially the Social Democrats, is thoroughly corrupt. Its people are protesting relentlessly and in great numbers against this. While Poland and Hungary remain in the headlines of commercial media the political situation in […]
Economics
Renegade Inc: Universal Basic Income – Utopian or Real?
Every once in a while, an idea surfaces that catches the imagination of the public: academics, policy wonks, economists, entrepreneurs and even some governments. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is one of those ideas. Read here […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: OUTSOURCING: A TRANSACTIONS COST APPROACH
Leave the dogma behind, and the numbers tell a different story about privatisation: It is not cheaper, better, or more efficient. Read here
Austerity
Jihen Chandoul: The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting
The IMF claims to have learnt from its mistakes and writes lovely papers criticising its own policies of the past. Still they have not swerved an inch from their traditional policy of brutal austerity. Read […]
Economics
J. D. Alt – The Millennials’ Money
The video is by an architect, J . D. Alt, who asked why the world could not afford to build the vision he had for it, and realised that the only obstacle was lack of […]
Deregulation
Michael Roberts: Carillion and the ‘dead end’ of privatisation
We did not want to post any articles concerning Carillion. It was a specifically British event. The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses […]